All the points made so far are good ones. Well almost all.
On the one hand you say you're a solaris shop.
Then I would think it easy to run there to begin with and see how it
goes. You can always 'recycle' the SUn box and switch to AIX/RS6K.
On the other hand there's been a few times where new function appeared
on the AIX ADSM before non-IBM platforms. Do you bleed or trail in
technology? Even being a non-Aix shop is moot when using *SM on an AIX
box because it needs little OS upkeep. We run on 3466(AIX) and with IBM
managing the OS for me (once a year) I find I just need to learn a
superficial amount of AIX (more unix learning) to do things 'around' ADSM
to support it on the box.
... joe.f.
P.S. Tell Ann-Marie M. I said hello!! Does this mean VM is going away
with MVS at McGill?
Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Howard Heitner wrote:
> Currently, we are running TSM 3.7 on MVS. Since we are phasing out
> this platform, I am looking to move TSM to either SUN (Solaris)
> or IBM (AIX). We have good expertise on Solaris and very little on
> AIX. Also, we are using an IBM 3494 Tape Library with 3590-B1As.
>
> My question are: What are users experiences with running TSM under
> Solaris and AIX? Is support better under AIX then with Solaris?
>
> How do I find out how many server licenses have been issued for
> SUN vs RS/6000 platforms?
>
> Should I be considering another platform?
>
> Any other issues that may be relevant?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Howard Heitner
> Computing Center
> McGill University
>
